Yay family!!

I was sooooo grateful and excited to have my family come visit me for a week last week!! We packed our schedules so much that we were all exhausted by the end of the week - and I was headed straight for New York! Lemme see if I can remember everything we did and everywhere we went:

Sunday evening: La familia arrived and we headed for Thai food down the street from my place
Monday: Normal work day for me, so they went to the Air and Space Museum, while I got dinner ready for them. They got to come see where I live and work (yay for free tours!), eat dinner with me, and play rounds of dominoes!
Tuesday: Another full day for me, so they went to Smithsonians that I had already been to, but afterward we went to the game!
Wednesday: *see Happy Birthday America post* ;)
Thursday: I took a half day off work, so we all went to the Holocaust Museum and then to the Museum of American History to lighten the mood. There's only so much Holocaust you can take in one day, so we finished it Friday.  Because I'm with the USMC, we got to go in whenever we wanted and didn't have to wait for tickets! For dinner we went and got Noodles and Co., which, by the way, is delicious.  The guy was so nice, too, because he gave us two free Rice Krispies treats since we had never been there!

Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf's uniforms during Desert Storm!

Friday: Last day with the family :(  There was no way they were going to get to see everything, so we split up after finishing the Holocaust Museum and National Gallery of Art.  Megan and Dad went to see the Iwo Jima Memorial (which I have yet to do) and the WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam War Memorials, while Mom and I went back to the hotel to relax. After walking 16 miles in two days...walking more is the last thing you wanna do!

Early Saturday morning they left for Texas and I went to NYC...but more on that LATER!